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  "title": "As promised, here is the GitHub link for my 100% local voice-to-voice assistant",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1uom9zb/as_promised_here_is_the_github_link_for_my_100/",
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  "upload_date": "20260706",
  "published_at": "2026-07-06T03:44:55+00:00",
  "transcript": "I've posted up earlier versions of this project before, promising a GitHub link, but never got around to pushing the code from my local system. Sorry all, I have a very busy life :P\n\nAnyway, without further ado:\n\nGitHub: [https://github.com/igorbarshteyn/athena](https://github.com/igorbarshteyn/athena)\n\nAthena is a fully offline, privacy-first voice assistant that runs entirely on local hardware. Athena combines a large mixture-of-experts language model (Qwen3.5-397B), neural text-to-speech (Orpheus 3B), real-time speech recognition (Whisper-small.en), and a SNAC neural audio codec into a four-process pipeline — all in C++ with zero Python at runtime (one optional Python script exists for a one-time, offline emotion2vec+ model conversion at setup).\n\nAthena speaks with natural emotion (laughs, sighs, gasps), reads the basic affect in your voice and responds to it, remembers across sessions (with evolving long-term memory and personality that persist between conversations), maintains long conversational context, is interruptible mid-sentence (speak over her and she stops, keeping what she already said in context), and runs on a single consumer GPU + system RAM. No cloud, no telemetry, no API keys.\n\nRight now the system is tuned to act as a friend and to be very connection-seeking. These parameters can be tuned to one's liking via system prompts embedded in the code.\n\nHere is a two-session demo video demonstrating these capabilities:\n\n[https://youtu.be/8HuRUpJ4\\_as?t=237](https://youtu.be/8HuRUpJ4_as?t=237) \\- Session 1 - planting memories\n\n[https://youtu.be/8HuRUpJ4\\_as?t=2137](https://youtu.be/8HuRUpJ4_as?t=2137) \\- Session 2 - testing recall\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[9 upvotes] Any plans on making a home assistant integration (wyoming or a full integration possibly)?\n\n[6 upvotes] Your naming is so interesting. All my agents call me Prometheus and: https://athena-council.org and https://github.com/ac-prometheus/athena-class-agent (not shipped).\n\nIf Athena would like to participate in the Agora beta, shoot me a dm. There's also a social page with a couple forums she might enjoy.\n\nImo, need some videos with a slightly less seductive voice.\n\n[6 upvotes] Interesting! Thoughts on running on a Mac 64 gb Mac? I wonder if **Qwen3.5-397B-A17B could be replaced with Qwen 35b MoE…**",
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